Sense of wonder: a century of science fiction
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Te…
"'What exactly does AI automate''Betancourt begins with the obvious answer, 'human labor,' and ends with the nature of value created in capitalism. His analysis was written for a lecture at the Aspen Institute'Germany's Third Annual Berlin AI Conference, 'Humanity Enabled: AI & …
This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces are roughly organized in the chronological order of when the movies and television programs being discussed first appeared, with es…